[8-Week Leadership Diagnostic]

You can measure everything else. Why are you still guessing about leadership?

Dacto Decode is an 8-week diagnostic that makes leadership visible, measurable, and actionable so you can stop firefighting and start scaling.

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Trusted by leadership teams who wanted the truth

The problem isn't your strategy. It's the leadership your people actually experience.

Execution Drag

Projects overrun. Decisions stall. Your senior team pulls in different directions and nobody can explain why.

Retention Risk

Your best people leave. Exit interviews say "culture" but the real cause is invisible leadership friction they can't articulate.

Scaling Fragility

Growth exposes leadership cracks. What worked what worked when the organisation was founded changes significantly at 20 headcount.

CEO Bottleneck

You're stuck firefighting instead of leading. Your leadership bench is thin, and a few strong players carry the load.

[DACTO APP]

DactoApp is our proprietary behavioural intelligence platform. It captures the traces leaders leave behind making the invisible visible across six critical domains.

SEE YOUR leadership team's BASELINE

Direction & Clarity

Decision-making in Practice

Day-to-day Leadership Behaviour

Performance & Accountability

Trust & Psychological Safety

Development & Enablement

Live evidence

visibility

LEADERSHIP IMPACT

[THE PROCESS]

Decode: Diagnose before you develop

Most leadership programmes start with aspiration and end with hope. Decode starts with diagnosis a forensic, evidence-based assessment of how leadership actually shows up in your organisation.

Introduction to Forensic Leadership

A short, practical session (in-person or online) that helps your leadership team understand how their day-to-day behaviour shows up across the business, and why it matters for execution, trust, and pace. This creates a shared starting point before any data is reviewed.

2 × DactoApp® Data Cycles

Your leaders are measured twice, across five leadership domains, using feedback from the people they actually work with.

Each data cycle is accompanied by 1:1 interviews with key leaders and/or key stakeholders, ensuring the quantitative data is grounded in direct conversation. This reveals where leadership is helping the business move forward, and where it is quietly slowing decisions or creating friction.

Full Diagnostic Report

A clear, evidence-based view of leadership across the team. You’ll see where capability is strong, where risk is building, and where targeted changes would unlock momentum, without guesswork or politics.

Completed in 8 Weeks

A defined, low-disruption diagnostic that fits around the business. In eight weeks, you have clarity on leadership capability, risk, and priorities, without committing to a long programme or organisational overhaul.

Is Decode right for you?

Decode is designed for mid-market leadership teams who are ready to see what's really going on.

Decode is for you if...

You're a CEO, MD, or CHRO at a £10M–£500M company

You have 120–300 staff and a leadership team of 5–30

Growth has stalled or execution is dragging and you can't explain why

The board is asking about leadership bench strength

You're preparing for acquisition, expansion, or exit

You've tried training before and nothing stuck

Decode is not for you if...

You want a generic training programme

You're looking for personality profiling or psychometrics

You need a quick fix rather than real diagnosis

Your leadership team isn't ready to see the truth

You want someone to tell you what you want to hear

You want a cookie cutter approach to leadership development

Paul provided our leaders with tools, alignment, and confidence, significantly improving engagement scores - ‘My Manager’, ‘Leadership’, and ‘My Team’. Highly recommended.

LEWIS BARR

Partner (Non-Solicitor)
Marketing & Commercial

Transparent pricing. No surprises.

Decode is priced by leadership team size. All engagements include the full diagnostic - no hidden extras.

1–5 Leaders

Small Team

£4,500

One-time investment

Forensic Leadership introduction

2 × DactoApp® data cycles

1:1 interviews with key leaders and stakeholders

Full diagnostic report

8-week completion

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6–15 Leaders

Mid-Size Team

£8,500

One-time investment

Forensic Leadership introduction

2 × DactoApp® data cycles

1:1 interviews with key leaders and stakeholders

Full diagnostic report

8-week completion

Book a Diagnostics Call

16–30 Leaders

Large Team

£12,500

One-time investment

Forensic Leadership introduction

2 × DactoApp® data cycles

1:1 interviews with key leaders and stakeholders

Full diagnostic report

8-week completion

Book a Diagnostics Call

Enterprise teams (30+ leaders)? Get in touch for custom pricing. All prices exclude VAT.

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Questions you might have

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"We've done leadership training before - nothing sticks."

That's exactly why Decode exists. Training fails because it addresses symptoms, not causes. You can't train what you can't see. Decode is a diagnostic - it shows you where leadership is actually breaking down, so any investment you make afterwards is targeted, not generic. We diagnose first. Development comes after, if it's even needed.

"Will this be a development programme?"

No. Decode is forensic, not fluffy. DactoApp captures behavioural data across five domains. The output is evidence: patterns, traces, scores - not opinions. It's designed for CEOs who want clarity, not comfort. If you're looking for a feel-good workshop, this isn't it.

"How quickly will I see results?"

Decode is completed in 8 weeks. By week 8, you'll have a full diagnostic report with clear, actionable findings. Most clients report that simply surfacing the data (making leadership visible) changes conversations immediately. The clarity alone shifts behaviour before any formal intervention.

"How do I explain ROI to the board?"

Leadership drag shows up in execution delays, retention costs, and missed targets. Decode quantifies this. Your diagnostic report gives you evidence you can present to the board: here's where leadership is costing us, here's the risk, here's the path forward. It's the difference between "we feel like there's a problem" and "here's the data."

"How is the Introduction different from a typical leadership webinar?"

This is a closed-door, confidential briefing for senior decision-makers, not a public webinar. You'll get real behavioural insight and optional Q&A inside exec teams. It's designed to give leaders clarity fast, not overwhelm them with slides or broad concepts.

"Is the data secure and confidential?"

Absolutely. Discretion is foundational to this work. All data captured through DactoApp is confidential and handled with strict protocols. Individual responses are never shared without consent. The diagnostic is designed to create safety, not exposure, leaders need to trust the process for it to work.